• The highest yielding variety available
• Consistently high seasonal yield performance
• High sugar content: 17.1%
• Good rust resistance: 6.7
• For normal and late sowing
• Rhizomania tolerant

BTS 1915 has moderate resistance to powdery and downy mildew, plus good rust resistance, ensuring its suitability for later harvesting dates. Sow BTS 1915 in the normal and late sowing period. This variety is unsuitable for sowing before mid-March, as indicated by the X on the Recommended List.

Breeders Comment:
“BTS 1915 continues to show very high yield potential with an exceptional 4.6% yield advantage over its nearest competitor and 7.3% over the mean of the treated control on the sugar beet Recommended List.

Equally impressive is its performance in untreated trials, yielding 3.5% over its nearest competitor BTS 5770 and 8.4% over the mean of the control. “We normally expect to see year-on-year yield advances of 1 to 2% in yields, so BTS 1915 is something special, especially considering many other arable crop yields have plateaued.

Nor is it a one-year wonder performance. These extremely high yields have been consistent over all the seasons tested in UK official trials”